Mehwish Akram
Someone has said: “I have to be careful when I am around sweets.”
And I think it’s absolutely right because you have to be careful about what you are eating and whether it is healthy for your body or not .
According to the American Heart Association, the recommended sugar intake is not more than six teaspoons (25 grams) for women, and not more than nine teaspoons (38 grams) for men.
High level of sugar content in human body will definitely create unhealthy effects:
- First of all Obesity, it will increase your weight as it contains high level of fats and carbohydrates .
- Heart diseases i.e risk of heart attack increases as sugary food contains high level of fats that causes the arteries to block and disturb the circulation of blood .
- Diabetes, Diabetes is the most commonly found disease in Pakistan , in which your body do not produce enough insulin to counter the effects of Glucose in our body .
- Cholesterol, high sugar content also disturbs the level of cholesterol in your body , as the cholesterol level disturbs , it causes more problems for the heart .
- Cancer, research says that sugar content fuels the cancer cells and causes cancer to spread rapidly
- Depression , sugary diet is associated with depression as it causes the disturbances in your body . Depression is also linked to the weight gain , having health issues etc
As prevention is better than cure, so one should try to avoid having sugary food and eat within the recommended limit because health is wealth.
–The writer is pharmacist by profession
